The Fine Arts The Fine Arts The Performing Arts The Fine Arts

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The Fine Arts
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1. ADLER (Jankel). HAYTER (S.W.), introduction. Jankel Adler.
Illustrations. First edition. 4to., cloth, pictorial dust jacket. London, Nicholson and
Watson. 1948. £2,500
A presentation copy, inscribed in brown crayon on the front free endpaper ‘To
my friends the Aukins with much love Jankel’ above a fine full page self-portrait
in the same brown crayon. Adler was born in 1895 in Poland, and moved to Ger-
many in 1914, leaving in 1932 after contributing to an appeal against Nazi poli-
cies. As a Jew he was in danger of his life, so exiled himself first to Paris, then in
1939 to Scotland. He featured in the notorious ‘Entartete Kunst’ exhibition in
Munich in 1937. The Aukins were David and Liane, whose father Charles was
the administrator of the Jankel Adler estate.
Dust jacket grubby, some small tears on the top margins with some loss, nicked
along the lower edge.
2. ADLER(Jankel). HAYTER (S.W.). Jankel Adler.
Illustrations. First edition. 4to., cloth, dust jacket. London, Nicholson and Watson.
1948. £200
Signed by the artist on the half title page. Dust jacket lacking the spine and the
corners, rubbed along the edges.
3. [ADLER(Jankel).] THEMERSON (Stefan). Jankel Adler. An artist seen
from one of many possible angles.
12 illustrations by the artist. First edition, limited to 400 numbered copies, signed by
the author and artist, title page in red and black, uncut, housed in a custom made
folding box. London, Gaberbocchus Press Ltd. 1948. £200
Borders of the covers browned, back cover spotted, endpapers foxed.
4. AGAR (Eileen). LAMBIRTH(Andrew), in collaboration with. A Look at my
Life.
Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. London, Methuen. 1988. £250
A presentation copy, inscribed to the author’s fellow surrealist David Gascoyne
and his wife ‘For David and Judy with love and best wishes from Eileen Agar’.
With the printed book label of the Gascoynes to the front pastedown.
Dust jacket with a few nicks to the extremities, text block embrowned.
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5. [ALMA-TADEMA (Sir Lawrence)]. DIRCKS (Rudolf). The Later Work of Sir
L. Alma-Tadema.
Etched frontispiece, tipped-in coloured plates, black and white illustrations to the
text. First edition. Large 4to., bevelled cloth, gilt. The Christmas number of the Art
Journal 1910. London, Virtue and Co. 1910. £150
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the title page ‘to Miss Pitt with kind re-
gards L Alma-Tadema 26.1.11’. A few gatherings just loose in the binding but
holding, the frontispiece foxed, boards rubbed at the extremities.
6. [ANNIGONI (Pietro)]. CAMMELL(C.R.). Memoirs of Annigoni.
Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., cloth, pictorial dust jacket with the artist’s
monogram to the corners. London, Allan Wingate. 1956. £100
Inscribed by the artist in red ink on the front free endpaper ‘con grato ricordo
Pietro Annigoni’ with his monogram underneath, also an inscribed presentation
from C.R.Cammell, on the same leaf, ‘To Michael Scott from the author affec-
tionately, Charles. C.R.Cammell Novber 56’.
Dust jacket lightly faded, a touch finger marked.
7. [ANNIGONI (Pietro)]. CAMMELL(C.R.). Pietro Annigoni.
Portrait frontispiece, illustrations. First edition. 4to., cloth, pictorial dust jacket.
London, Batsford. 1954. £100
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink, in Italian, on the front free endpaper ‘Lon-
don X-IV-LIV- A Bernard Rickatson Hatt con grati ricordi e amichevole mente
Pietro Annigoni’. The recipient was chief editor at Reuters 1932-41, one of his
assistants being Ian Fleming, who tapped Hatt for information on gold smuggling
when writing Goldfinger. Among the illustrations is a pencil portrait of Mrs. Rick-
atson Hatt. Printed book label of Mark Glazebrook to front pastedown, typewrit-
ten translation of the inscription pasted beneath it.
Covers faded, dust jacket nicked and torn at the edges.
8. APPEL(Karel). Appel’s Appels.
Illustrations. First edition. Tall 4to., wrappers. Montreal, Rothmans of Pall Mall
Canada. [1972]. £75
Text in French and English. Signed by the artist in ink on the half title page
‘K.Appel’, also signed in ink on the last leaf by the designers of the book.
Covers creased and finger marked, ink offsetting to rear endpaper.
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9. APPEL (Karel). Karel Appel over Karel Appel.
Illustrations. First edition. 4to., pictorial wrappers. Amsterdam, Triton Press. 1971.
£150
A presentation copy, boldly inscribed on the half title to the German born Dutch
artist Paul Citroen in different coloured inks ‘Voor Paul Citroen K.Appel 71’
17.iv.71’. Text in Dutch.
10. ARAKAWA(Shusako). CALAS (Nicholas), introduction. The Mechanism of
Meaning. Thirty-Six Drawings from the Collection of Shirley and
Miles Fiterman.
Illustrations. Second edition. Square 4to., original pictorial wrappers. Minneapolis,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 1979. £120
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the title page, most likely to the art critic
Suzi Gablik ‘To Suzi all my love Arakawa. [illegible, possibly a date] at N.Y. City’.
Arakawa, artist and architect, began his career as a member of Tokyo’s Neo-
Dadaism Organizers, arrived in New York in 1961 and formed a friendship with
Marcel Duchamp. He started to use diagrams in his work, an attempt to express
philosophical ideas in a graphical idiom, which brought him to the attention of
philosophers as diverse as Lyotard and Gadamer.
Some creasing and light soiling to the covers.
11. ARAKAWA(Shusako). GINS (Madeline H.). Arakawa: The Exhibition of
Shusako Arakawa.
Illustrations, some folding. First edition. 4to., pictorial wrappers. Tokyo, Seibu
Museum of Art. 1979. £250
Text in Japanese and English. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the half
title page most likely to the art critic Suzi Gablik ‘To Suzi keep the end in sight.
My love. Arakawa [illegible, possibly a date] at N.Y. City’.
Back cover lightly soiled, rear corner creased.
12. ARMAN. Selected Activities.
Numerous black and white illustrations. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. 8vo.,
pictorial wrappers. New York, John Gibson. n.d. [1973]. £250
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the half title page ‘Arman pour Georges’,
below a half page ink drawing of an inverted paint tube. Small stain to the fore
edge.
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13. ARMAN. RESTANY(Pierre). Exhibition Catalogue.
Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., pictorial wrappers. Arles, Cloître Saint-Trophime.
1974. £250
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the title page ‘une accumulation arman
pour Georges, Arman’, the inscription inside an original pen drawing of two
rectangular boxes, with shading.
14. ARMAN. VAN DER MARCK(Jan). Hard & Soft.
Illustrations. First edition. 4to., pictorial wrappers. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery.
1978. £250
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front cover ‘for Georges, Arman’, ac-
companied by an original ink drawing of a violin.
15. ARMSTRONG-JONES(Tony).(Lord Snowdon). A Photographic Autobi-
ography.
Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs by Snowdon. First edition.
4to., cloth, pictorial dust jacket. New York, Times Books. 1979. £75
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper ‘To Josephine
Clark with best wishes from Snowdon’.
Dust jacket just nicked at head and tail of spine.
16. ARMSTRONG-JONES (Tony). (Lord Snowdon). London.
Illustrated with photographs by Snowdon. First edition. 4to., cloth, dust jacket.
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1958. £100
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the second front free endpaper ‘To Louis
Nicholls from Snowdon 1st May 1964’. With the second issue dust jacket, made
plainer after the original, with its offline lettering, was not to the photographer’s
taste.
Covers heavily spotted, rubbed at the extremities, dust jacket nicked and torn
at the margins.
17. ARMSTRONG-JONES(Tony). (Lord Snowdon). HART (Derek). A View of
Venice.
Photographic illustrations by Snowdon. First edition. Oblong 4to., pictorial boards.
Zurich, Olivetti. 1972. £100
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink in Snowdon’s hand apart from ‘Derek Hart’
on the half title page to Margot Fonteyn ‘To darling Margot with lots of love +
admiration from Tony + Derek Hart’.
Spine just used, corners slightly bumped.
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18. ARP (Hans). Graphik 1912–1959.
Black and white illustrations in the text. First edition. 8vo., original blue wrappers,
the front cover bearing an original abstract woodcut by Arp, stapled as issued, tipped
in slip announcing the extension of the exhibition. Basel, Kunstmuseum. 1959.
£100
Signed in pencil by the artist on the title page ‘Arp’. Back cover just creased.
19. ASHBEE (C.R.). Caricature.
Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., original blue cloth lettered and ruled in white, uncut.
Universal Art Series, London, Chapman and Hall. 1928. £150
A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his
daughter and son in law ‘To Horst and Prudence for Xmas from the Author
Daddy 1940’. Horst was Walter Nessler, one of the countless artists driven from
his native Germany by the Nazis, famous for a savage satire on Hitler published
as ‘Das Hitler ABC’. Nessler and Prudence met in Dresden, and moved to Lon-
don in the 1930s, sponsored by her father.
Extremities faintly bumped, postcard of a caricatural nature including Ashbee
glued to the half title. Lacks the dust jacket.
20. ASHBEE (C.R.).Lyrics of the Nile.
First edition. Tall 8vo., quarter forel over Curwen Press patterned paper boards,
uncut. London, Oxford University Press. 1938. £150
A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the half title page ‘To Felix Tomlyn with
kindliest greetings from the Author + his wife C.R.Ashbee. December 1940.’.
The half title spotted and foxed, corners worn.
21. [AUERBACH (Frank)]. GOODING(Mel). Recent Werk.
Illustrations. First edition, 4to., pictorial card wrappers. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
1989. £200
Text in Dutch and English. Loosely inserted a folded invitation card for an Auer-
bach show at Marlborough Fine Art, tipped in to which is an ALS from Auerbach
to Julian Andrews, 1st October 1989, some 80 words, a thank you note, ‘I feel a
bit of a fraud - everything was made so easy for us...’. Julian Andrews worked for
the British Council, his last posting was to Holland, where this exhibition took
place. Tipped in an invitation card to the vernissage.
22. [AUERBACH(Frank)]. HUGHES (Robert). Frank Auerbach.
Illustrations. First edition. 4to., cloth, dust jacket. London, Thames and Hudson.
1990. £450
Inscribed in ink on the half title to the painter Clem Crosby ‘to Clem with Good
Wishes Frank Auerbach’.
Back cover with a hint of soiling.
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